St. Francis Tai Chi class offers all the right moves for health, well-being

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INDIANAPOLIS – The ancient martial art of Tai Chi uses slow and gentle movements and its practice is known to have myriad health benefits.

That’s why St. Francis purchase cialis & Health Centers is offering Tai Chi for Health Series featuring Richard A. Cornell. The class meets each Monday, beginning Jan. 10 from 6-7 p.m. and Friday, Jan. 14, from 10-11 a.m.

Each series is six weeks in length and is hosted at 3131 E. Thompson Road at Carson Square Mall.

Tai Chi is designed to improve physical and mental health and includes exercises to improve breathing, relaxation and mobility. It also has found to be effective in improving balance, strength and promotes greater endurance for people with arthritis.

“With Tai Chi, you’re always moving, but always under complete control,” said Michele Wood, R.N., who is coordinating the class. “A participant’s internal energy circulation actually helps prevent disease and debility.”

Cost of the class is $30 and payable at time of registration. For more information, contact Wood at 317-865-5864, or at Michele.Wood@ssfhs.org.

Curse Tablets of Roman Britain

Project name and URL
Curse cheap cialis of Roman Britain
http://curses.csad.ox.ac.uk/


Organization name
Centre for the Study of Ancient Documents (CSAD), Stelios Ioannou School for Research in Classical and Byzantine Studies, Oxford University


Description of what was digitized
This is a neat project digitizing ancient “curse” cialis from Roman Britain. Curse tablets were thin metal lead sheets inscribed with requests to the gods and tossed into sacred sites like temples. In Roman Britain they usually asked deities to punish thieves, for example, "...to the holy god Mercury. I complain to your divinity that I have lost two wheels and four cows and many small belongings from my house. I would ask the genius of your divinity that you do not allow health to the person who has done me wrong…”

Audience
While the presentation of the tablets themselves is quite technical and presumably aimed at scholars, context is also provided for amateurs through a educational module Cursing for Beginners. There’s also detailed information about the archeological sites where these tablets were found.

Project background

There is not much information about the digitization process itself. One page does explain that modern digitization techniques were used to make the tablets more legible when photographed: “Images can also be manipulated to bring out the contrasts of light and shade and images photographed from different angles can be combined to map incisions revealed by the play of light and shadow across the tablet.”

How are the digital assets presented?
The tablets are presented in several different ways. First, there is a high-resolution digital photograph, and also a hand-drawn (and much more legible) copy of the tablet. Then, a transcription of the Latin text is provided, along with detailed line notes. Lastly, in most cases, there is an English translation of the text.

Because these are unique objects, they have some unique metadata. A detailed description of the physical tablet itself is provided, with the size and condition. Citations are given for the original scholarly article that described the tablet. If possible, the original “author” of the tablet is listed.

Other thoughts
This is an interesting project since only about 30 tablets were digitized, but extensive background information was created about the nature of curse tablets and the ancient sites where they are found. It looks like it was a pilot test for creating a more extensive database in the future to help share these unique documents, as well as to educate the general public.